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  • Obama campaign sues Ohio over early-voting restrictions

    07/17/2012 6:27:33 PM PDT · by Red Steel · 23 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | Tuesday, 07.17.12 | STEPHANIE WARSMITH
    AKRON, Ohio -- More than 1.7 million Ohioans voted before Election Day in the 2008 presidential election - about 30 percent of all ballots cast. And nearly 100,000 of them voted in-person in the final three days before the November election. Noting the significance of those numbers, President Barack Obama's campaign filed a federal lawsuit in Columbus on Wednesday, seeking to restore the three days of early voting prior to Election Day that the GOP-controlled Ohio Legislature eliminated earlier this year. The suit was the first legal action Obama's campaign has filed in this election. "This lawsuit seeks to treat...